From oceans to space, technological advances will impact travel industry by 2024

From oceans to space, technological advances will impact travel industry by 2024

Travel report released by Skyscanner anticipates revolutionary changes to the travel industry by 2024, including mainstream journeys from the ocean floor to the moon and beyond.

A travel report recently released by global travel search site, Skyscanner, envisions how the holiday travel experience may change within the next decade, from space travel and deep-sea hotel suites to jetlag room technology and digital personal trainers.

The report, entitled “The Future of Travel 2024,” gives a brief overview of the world in 10 years due to the ever-evolving technological advances in daily life. According to Filip Filipov, Head of B2B for Skyscanner, the technology will have an incredible impact on the travel industry in particular.

“In the near future, there is going to be a mass-market conversion to semantic, location-aware and Big Data [data sets that are beyond our reasonable abilities to manage or comprehend so that more imaginative methods and ways to visualize them are required] applications, which will be of transformative use to travelers,” said Filipov. “Within five years, gadgets such as Google Glass will be using these areas of technology and we’ll see a significant change in how we handle foreign languages, or choose what restaurant to eat at, based on the wisdom of crowds that we can instantly access.”

The report highlights three key areas in the future of travel, from planning & booking to travel journeys and concluding with destinations & hotels. “We are at the start of a journey that will see personalization of content and advances in areas such as Artificial Intelligence that will totally change once again the way we book and take our vacations,” said Filipov.

Notable features in the report include: mainstream journeys to the bottom of the sea, sky resorts containing zero-gravity spas, hyper-personalized hotel experiences featuring Vitamin D-infused showers and sleep-aiding massages, and the ability to travel from London to Sydney, for example, in two-and-a-half hours.

One of the most popular highlights of the report focuses on mainstream space travel for commercial companies such as SpaceX and The European Space Agency, according to Fox News. “I suspect we’ll see the habitation of Mars and the ambitions of Mars One or Elon Musk’s vision coming to fruition before space travel becomes common enough and cheap enough to be affordable for the majority,” said Skyscanner CEO Gareth Williams, in the report.

According to Fox News, the report was released in the buildup for World Space Week, which runs from Oct. 4 to Oct. 10.

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